The information in our air transport data is updated daily from many different sources: international organisations, airports and airlines etc In order to increase its scope and its reliability, ENAC also carries out annual surveys of airlines and airports.

For further details, please contact our Air Transport

Databases Manager, Mr Mehrdad FARZINPOUR,

tel: 33 (0)1 58 09 35 31, fax: 33 (0)1 58 09 35 87,

e-mail: mehrdad.farzinpour@enac.fr,

7 avenue Edouard Belin, BP 54005,

31055 Toulouse cedex 4 (France).

Airlines :

600 airlines,

since 1980

The "airlines" database comprises detailed information on 600 airlines throughout the world for every year since 1980: background information

numbers (flight attendants, technical crew and total work force), fleet structure by aircraft type (in service, on order, date of manufacture and delivery etc), fleets leased from lessors as well as fleet utilisation data (number of landings, number of seats available, "block to block" and "real" flying hours, average stage length), etc. Key-word searches are also available.

The "traffic flows" database comprises all country-pair and city-pair data for

over 200 countries and 3000 airports world-wide for every year since 1970. On any given route, several different sources of information are available (airports,

) providing a

civil aviation administrations and international organisations etc breakdown between scheduled and non-scheduled operations.

Airports

:

3000 airports,

since 1970

The "airports" database comprises data on more than 3000 airports world-wide, collected from a variety of sources every year since 1970: number of passengers (local/transit, international/domestic), number of aircraft movements (total/all- cargo/mixed, international/domestic), freight (international and domestic, express) and mail etc

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Les 15 premières villes The 15 most important cities (en nombre de passagers / in number of passengers)

Les 15 premiers aéroports The 15 most important airports (en nombre de passagers / in number of passengers)

Les 15 premières villes The 15 most important cities (en tonnes de fret - in tonnes of freight)

Les 15 premiers aéroports The 15 most important airports (en tonnes de fret - in tonnes of freight)

Villes

Fret & Poste

16/15

Aéroports

Fret & Poste

16/15

Cities

Freight & Mail

(%)

Airports

Freight & Mail

(%)

1 HONG KONG

4

592

304

4,8

1

HONG KONG MEMPHIS

4

592 304

4,8

2 MEMPHIS

4

331

258

0,9

2

4

331 258

0,9

3 SHANGHAI

3

869

187

4,3

3

SEOUL - INCHEON

3

542 643

6,4

4 SEOUL

3

817

349

6,0

4

SHANGHAI - PUDONG

3

440 280

5,0

5 TOKYO

3

424

484

0,2

5

DUBAI ANCHORAGE

2

592 454

3,4

6 LOS ANGELES

2

606

352

-4,0

6

2

542 526

-3,4

7 DUBAI

2

592

454

3,4

7

LOUISVILLE PARIS - CHARLES DE GAULLE

2

437 035

3,7

8 ANCHORAGE

2

542

526

-3,4

8

2

317 407

1,6

9 LOUISVILLE

2

437

035

3,7

9

TOKYO - HANEDA

2

200 007

1,9

10 PARIS

2

434

417

0,7

10

FRANCFORT

2

198 130

1,8

11 FRANCFORT

2

198

130

1,8

11

TAIPEI - TAOYUAN

2

097 228

3,7

12 TAIPEI

2

140

869

3,6

12

LOS ANGELES - INTERNATIONAL

2

090 849

-6,1

13 NEW YORK

2

132

792

1,3

13

MIAMI SINGAPOUR BEIJING - CAPITAL

2

050 978

-8,8

14 LONDON

2

102

579

4,1

14

2

006 400

6,3

15 MIAMI

2

050

978

-8,8

15

1

943 160

2,8

Total movements : total number of movements by aircraft and helicopters carried out to or from the airport in question, whatever the purpose of their flights. Total commercial passengers : the total number of passengers (domestic + international + direct transit).

General aviation : commercial and private movements carried out by business aircraft, private aircraft or helicopters.

(e)

flights.

Total movements : total number of movements by aircraft and helicopters carried out to or from the airport in question, whatever the purpose of their

2. PASSENGERS

The number of passengers carried on a commercial aircraft or helicopter, whether on a scheduled or unscheduled flight, must be shown in the section Children under two years of age, not occupying a seat, are not counted. Commercial passengers include :

· Passengers either starting or finishing their journey at the airport in question.

· Transfer passengers : passengers arriving and then departing from the airport on different aircraft, or on the same aircraft having been allocated two different flight numbers, and whose main purpose in using the airport was to make a transfer. . Direct transit passengers: passengers temporarily stopping at the airport in question and departing on the same aircraft in which they arrived, this aircraft having retained the same registration and flight number. They are only to be counted once.

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(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Domestic traffic : passengers for which both the departure and arrival airports are in the same country.

International traffic : passengers for whom the departure and arrival airports are not in the same country.

Total passenger traffic : the total number of passengers shown under the headings "domestic traffic" and "international traffic".

Direct transit : see the definition above.

Total commercial passengers : the total number of passengers (domestic + international + direct transit).

3. FREIGHT (in metric tonnes)

Commercial freight includes goods, newspapers, diplomatic bags and parcels transported using commercially operated aircraft (scheduled + unscheduled), with the exception of luggage and mail. Express freight includes parcels and envelopes entrusted to private express delivery companies, transporting or not by air.

4. MAIL (in metric tonnes)

Mail only includes bags handed over by the Postal Authorities, whatever their contents may be.